A student brought this interesting object into the Library recently. He is one of our best naturalists and had figured out it was a badger's lower jawbone.
I asked the students to find out what badgers most commonly eat. I knew Montana badgers eat small mammals, but I learned from the students' research that European badgers mostly dine on earthworms! For information on badgers, American and European, there is a good website for kids:
View a badger skull at:
The Montana Field Guide is a good site about animals and plants that live in our state:
Another student brought in this surveyor's benchmark from 1914.
Can you name three U. S. Presidents who were surveyors before they were presidents?
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